We will not surrender our freedomsToday, Independence Day, we renew our pledge to serve the people, to continue speaking truth to power, and to guard and defend freedom of the press and of expression from all threats.Read More Covering the PandemicRead more Covering the CoViD-19 Pandemic Revisiting Doña Paz CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer and GMA News TV for reminding the public of the horrors of the sinking of the passenger ship MV Doña Paz, which was the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in world history. Telco coverage JEERS TO Rappler for its coverage of telecommunications companies, the number of which increased towards the end of 2012. Readers criticize the website for the number of its news articles that are wither advertorials or one-sided. More than reporting the stock market’s high CHEERS TO 24 Oras and the BusinessMirror for providing an additional perspective on the implications of the Philippine Stock Exchange index’s (PSEi) breaching the 6000th mark last January. Explaining the geopolitics of Scarborough CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for reminding readers of the basis of the Philippine claim on the much-disputed Panatag Shoal (or also known as Bajo de Masinloc and internationally known as the Scarborough Shoal). Suspicious JEERS To the Philippine Daily Inquirer for a practice that can only lead to readers’ suspecting that there’s a “special arrangement” between certain reporters and Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago. A series of stories involving the senator, because far from newsworthy, makes it seem that whatever she says... FOI Timeline CHEERS TO InterAksyon.com for a story on President Benigno Aquino and his fading support for a Freedom of Information (FOI) bill. Probing report CHEERS TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer for focusing on an important issue in the policy debate on reproductive health (RH): Sen. Vicente “Tito” Sotto III’s use of fringe science in his speeches defending his anti-RH bill position. RH Act not covered as Health and Women’s Issue FROM NOVEMBER to December of last year, Republic Act 10354 (or the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012 which was signed into law last Dec. 21) was always in the news. However, the reports lacked in-depth coverage of the Act as a health and women’s issue. Propaganda or public information?The blocktiming landscape in Pampanga IN JULY 2012, Pampanga First District Representative Carmelo "Tarzan" Lazatin surprised his town mates when he turned his back from his known ally and friend Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan and decided to run for city mayor in the upcoming midterm elections. Reading habit CHEERS TO GMA News TV’s State of the Nation with Jessica Soho for a feature report last Jan. 15 on the reading habits of Filipinos and promoting reading among its viewers. « Previous1…2021222324…61Next »
